Walnut Tree Farmhouse

TM 39 NW KIRSTEAD SEETHING ROAD

3/37 Walnut Tree Farmhouse 25.9.51

• II House. C16 and dated 1613 on bressumer beam of cross-wing. Rendered timber-frame. Tile roof. C16 2-cell plan with C17 cross-wing. 2 storey and attic facade with irregular fenestration, re-arranged during restoration of 1970's. Rendered plinth. Door of 4 raised and fielded panels with flat hood on consoles. C18 part-leaded 3-light casement to its right. 2-light leaded casement to first floor with small 2-light casement to its right over door; tall stair light of 1970's restoration; 2-light mullion under eaves. Gabled bay to right with 4-light casement with transom to ground and first floors. Dated bressumer beam. 4-light attic casement. Internal C18/C19 stack to left of door and off-centre axial stack with 4 lozenge-shaped shafts. Right-hand gable wall has a 5-light mullioned and transomed window with ovolo mouldings to the ground floor; 5-light casement to first floor. To rear, large 5-light casement to ground floor of cross wing, with moulded sill of earlier window; bressumer carved with crosses surrounded by diamonds; 3-light casement to attic. C20 plank door, 2 C18 3-light windows, one 4-light mullion probably of 70's restoration to ground floor of main range. One 3-light casement re-using ovolo moulded mullions, 2 C18 3-light casements, one 5-light diamond mullion. Single storey C18 wing to left hand gable. Interior. Timber-frame exposed. Cross-wing heavily timbered; ovolo mouldings to spine beam; chamfered joists; 4-centred arch brick fireplace. Blackening to timber-fame of gable in C16 range; roof timbers, not blackened, of C17 type with one row of butt-purlins and upper clasp- purlins with curved wind braces.

Listing NGR: TM3066997415